Thought and Aesthetic Space. Observations on the Painting of the Caregiver of a Person Suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.

Abstract

The Author studies, through a psychoanalytic perspective, the psychological dynamics started by the painting activity of the caregiver of a person suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. In particular the Author analises the ways in which the creation of an aesthetic space allows the painter to elaborate the trauma and the mourning produced by the disease on his wife’s mind. He also investigates the potentialities of artistic activity to defend the caregiver from a potential symmetrical atrophy of patient’s mind.